Jacob Broom

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American politician 1752-1810

United States FoundersLived 1752 to 1810 · aged 57

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Jacob Broom was an American Founding Father, businessman, and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, he was a signer of the United States Constitution.

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In his painting Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, Howard Chandler Christy obscured Broom's face because no portrait of Broom could be found.

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Jacob Broom was an American Founding Father, businessman, and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. As a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, he was a signer of the United States Constitution. He was also appointed as a delegate to the Annapolis Convention in 1786 but did not attend, and he served in the Delaware General Assembly. He was the father of Congressman James M. Broom and grandfather of Congressman Jacob Broom.

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